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Sifan Hassan wins Athletissima 1,500 meters, Simpson, Coburn start their European racing as they focus for Beijing, by Chris Chavez, for RunBlogRun

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
July 10, 2015
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Sifan Hassan wins 1,500 meters, photo by PhotoRun.net

The Athletissima meet was an amazing evening. There were a couple of times, during the intense parts, that I just took a breath and smiled. One race after another. One jump after another. I saw the 1,500 meters and 3000 meter steeplechase in full. I watched four of Christian Taylor’s six jumps, missing his sixth. 

A meet like this is amazing.

Later that night, I grabbed a pizza, thanks to a kind restaurant owner. Emma Coburn was coming out with her family. Jenny Simpson came by and said hello, and we chatted a few minutes.  Watching the races of Coburn and Simpson as I have, the Athletissima meet is the perfect time for them to come over and begin that long drive to Beijing. 

A long season awaits…

We are excited to have Chris Chavez, who just was hired by Sports Illustrated, to work with us this summer. His writing style is clean and crisp. Like Jenny Simpson, who paid some nice compliments to Chris Chavez, I am quite happy to see Chris over in Europe this summer providing us some exciting coverage of meets that we have not visited in the past! 

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Evan Jager spoiled American track and field fans with his national record at the Paris Diamond League meeting and the bar was set too high for others to match on a chilly night in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

In the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, Emma Coburn reverted back to her previous tactics of racing from the front after a little test chasing at the U.S.A. Track and Field Outdoor Championships. The conditions were not ideal and Coburn said she had no response left in her legs with 200 meters remaining. 

“I didn’t set out for this meet to be an American record attempt,” Coburn said. “I’ve still got Monaco. Beijing will be fast and there’s also Brussels.” 

Time is on Coburn’s side, who oddly enough could still miss her personal best and set an American record because of the mishap that failed to ratify her 9:11.42 and a gap between Jenny Simpson’s 9:12.50. Coburn finished third in 9:20.67 behind two Africans that will certainly be in the medal conversation come world championships. 

While viewers at home thought tonight would be the night that Jenny Simpson sets a new American record in the 1,500-meter run, she’s got a much different focus in 2015. Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs are of the traditional approach where over-distance and under-distance racing will ultimately help succeed an athlete’s specialty, but Simpson approached her coach in 2014 asking to run as many 1,500-meter races as possible. She really wants to master the distance. 

In 2014, Simpson ran 3:57.22 in Paris to become the second fastest American woman of all-time. She feels more fit and ready to go faster than that, but there is no real race to dub an “American record chase.” In the right race, the time will come.  

Lausanne was her fifth 1,500-meter race of the year and a step in the right direction. She will race another in Monaco and then return to Boulder for training ahead of the World Championships.

Moments after the media was done with interviews and Simpson finished putting on her warm clothes, she called out to Siffan Hassan to congratulate her on her performance in the race. Hassan had beaten Simpson for the first time in over a year. The two have a history and it’s one that will definitely be among those to watch in Beijing. Simpson’s 4:03.54 is nothing to worry about. 2015 is the year to chase victories. 

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  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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